| P. James E. Peebles AKA Philip James Edwin Peebles Born: 25-Apr-1935
Birthplace: Saint Boniface, Manitoba, Canada
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Astronomer, Physicist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Galaxy formation Physicist P. James E. Peebles investigated galaxy formation and the nature of dark matter. His work provided the first cogent explanation of the primordial fireball in light of cosmic background radiation, demonstrated the covariance function of extragalactic objects, and showed that recombination is a very rapid process. He has also refocused attention on Albert Einstein's idea of a cosmological constant. Wife: Alison Peebles
High School: St. Vital High School, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (1954)
University: BS, University of Manitoba (1958)
University: PhD Physics, Princeton University (1962)
Scholar: Astrophysics, Princeton University (1962-65)
Teacher: Astrophysics, Princeton University (1965-68)
Professor: Astrophysics, Princeton University (1968-2000)
Crafoord Prize 2005
Gruber Prize in Cosmology 2000
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal 1998
Bruce Medal 1995
Eddington Medal 1981
American Physical Society
National Academy of Sciences
Asteroid Namesake 18242 Peebles
Naturalized US Citizen
Scottish Ancestry
Canadian Ancestry
Author of books:
Physical Cosmology (1971)
The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (1980)
Objects of High Redshift (1980, with George O. Abell)
Quantum Mechanics (1992)
Principles of Physical Cosmology (1993)
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